Date not established
Conviction
ConcludedThe trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: AIR 1980 SC 1087; (1980) 3 SCC 70
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CW-1980-0002HaryanaJudgment 31 March 1980
Haryana Police Assistant Sub-Inspector vs State of Haryana
The Supreme Court dismissed ASI 's special leave petition and sustained his life sentence for murdering theft suspect [name withheld] by custodial torture. In charge of a Haryana police post, the officer subjected suspects in an overnight theft case to severe flagellation, including the soles of the feet, as 'investigation'; a Haryana man succumbed inside police premises to asphyxiation with torture marks, and the officer's false explanation of suicidal hanging was rejected by the trial court and the High Court. Denouncing the diabolical recurrence of police torture, the Court found no error in the appreciation of evidence and urged the State to stamp out third-degree methods. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 31 March 1980 in SLP (Crl) No. 679 of 1980, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: V.R. Krishna Iyer, E.S. Venkataramiah, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Assistant Sub-Inspector, Haryana Police.
- Register number
- HR 00 CW 0001
- Case reference
- SLP (Crl) No. 679 of 1980 / AIR 1980 SC 1087; (1980) 3 SCC 70
- Court and date
- Supreme Court of India (Coram: V.R. Krishna Iyer, E.S. Venkataramiah, JJ.), 31 March 1980
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Assistant Sub-Inspector, Haryana Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “We are deeply disturbed by the diabolical recurrence of police torture resulting in a terrible scare in the minds of common citizens that their lives and liberty are under a new peril when the guardians of the law gore human …” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Supreme Court of India judgment dated 31 March 1980 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“We are deeply disturbed by the diabolical recurrence of police torture resulting in a terrible scare in the minds of common citizens that their lives and liberty are under a new peril when the guardians of the law gore human …” (para n/a)
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Institutional response
31 Mar 1980
Order issued
ConcludedThe Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.
Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card).
Source: AIR 1980 SC 1087; (1980) 3 SCC 70
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.